Theory.- Motivation for Application of Evolutionary Computation to Chaotic Systems.- Evolutionary Algorithms for Chaos Researchers.- Chaos Theory for Evolutionary Algorithms Researchers.- Evolutionary Algorithms and the Edge of Chaos.- Applications.- Evolutionary Design of Chaos Control in 1D.- Evolutionary Control of CML Systems.- Chaotic Systems Reconstruction.- Evolutionary Reconstruction of Chaotic Systems.- Cryptography Based on Spatiotemporal Chaotic Systems.- Evolutionary Decryption of Chaotically Encrypted Information.- Chaos Synthesis by Evolutionary Algorithms.- Evolutionary Synchronization of Chaotic Systems.- Evolutionary Optimization and Dynamic Fitness Landscapes.- Controller Parameters Optimization on a Representative Set of Systems Using Deterministic-Chaotic-Mutation Evolutionary Algorithms.- Chaotic Attributes and Permutative Optimization.- Frontiers.

This book discusses the mutual intersection of two fields of research: evolutionary computation, which can handle tasks such as control of various chaotic systems, and deterministic chaos, which is investigated as a behavioral part of evolutionary algorithms.